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A Controlled Breathing Course for Social & Emotional Health for Vietnam Veterans With Chronic PTSD-RCT

NCT00256477 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2005-11-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The main aim of this project is to evaluate the use of a specific Yoga technique of controlled breathing in Vietnam War Veterans with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder. This method is currently the subject of a United States grant application to formally test American War Veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq. Drs Gerbarg and Brown are collaborating with The Bay Pines Veterans Administration Medical Center in Florida to develop a study of this course for treatment of American veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Elements of this method have been used on a variety of populations. Whilst this is a multi-component intervention, it is postulated that the most active ingredient in the program is a specific Yoga breathing technique called Sudarshan Kriya (SK).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Sudarshan KRIYA Breathing Technique

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Queensland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dr Janis J CARTER, MBBS FRANZCP · The University of Queensland

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
ECT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-03-31
Completion
2005-10-31

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